I don't like Rivera's attitude on this, and I don't consider this a successful season. The fact is that in the regular season, we won 7 games and did not win 9 games, getting ABSOLUTELY SPANKED in 6 of them. Yes, we had 7 wins and 6 spankings. Had our division not sucked, we would all be going crazy about what a terrible season this was. I could actually understand having a losing season with all the holes we seemed to have on our roster, but 6 blowouts in unacceptable and should absolutely still be in the minds of coaching staff, management, players, etc.

I don't want Rivera fired myself, if only because the grass ain't always greener, but let me say it clearly:

Coach Rivera, your team won this year only as often as you got blown off the freaking field. I'd rather you balance your attitude of "building on recent successes" with one of making darn sure nobody blows us out next year.